[RFC] [PATCH 7/7] Ftrace plugin for Uprobes
Frank Ch. Eigler
fche at redhat.com
Tue Jan 12 18:54:01 UTC 2010
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com> writes:
> [...]
> This is much more tricky in the case of uprobes as I see two
> ways to work with it:
> - probing on an already running process
> - probing on a process we are about to run
> [...]
As you might expect, in systemtap we've had to figure out this area
some time ago. We use another utrace consumer called "task finder"
that registers interest in present / future processes, and gives us
kernel-space callbacks when these come and go. You could merge it or
something like it.
- FChE
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